Tits Up: What Our Beliefs About Breasts Reveal About Life, Love, Sex and Society
May 2024 · Pan Macmillan
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‘Excellent’ – The Economist
A fascinating study of the breast, bringing together health, social history, feminism, art, religion and intimate memoir.
Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them altogether. Why is this emblem of womanhood so often derided and maligned?
Tits Up investigates breasts through the eyes and lives of women experts. It explores the truths of mammary glands, from strip clubs to operating rooms, human milk banks, and bra designers’ studios. With refreshing optimism, Thornton unmasks the sexism behind the perceived profanity of breasts and hopes to liberate them from centuries of patriarchal prejudice.
‘Will make any woman reconsider her body, and any man reconsider how he treats the bodies of the women in his life’ – Independent
'Tits Up asks readers to reimagine the bosom . . . as a site of empowerment and even divinity' - The New York Times
A fascinating study of the breast, bringing together health, social history, feminism, art, religion and intimate memoir.
Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them altogether. Why is this emblem of womanhood so often derided and maligned?
Tits Up investigates breasts through the eyes and lives of women experts. It explores the truths of mammary glands, from strip clubs to operating rooms, human milk banks, and bra designers’ studios. With refreshing optimism, Thornton unmasks the sexism behind the perceived profanity of breasts and hopes to liberate them from centuries of patriarchal prejudice.
‘Will make any woman reconsider her body, and any man reconsider how he treats the bodies of the women in his life’ – Independent
'Tits Up asks readers to reimagine the bosom . . . as a site of empowerment and even divinity' - The New York Times
‘Excellent’ – The Economist
A fascinating study of the breast, bringing together health, social history, feminism, art, religion and intimate memoir.
Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or r...
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Sarah Thornton is a sociologist who writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, she is the author of three previous books. Her second, Seven Days in the Art World was an international bestseller, published in eighteen languages, and named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. Sarah has written for The Guardian, W, Art Basel, Cultured, among others. A skilled interviewer and engaging public speaker, Sarah has given hundreds of talks around the world and contributed to NPR, Netflix, ZDF and BBC radio and TV. A Canadian who went to the UK on a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, Thornton was hailed as “Britain’s hippest academic.” Now based in San Francisco, Thornton is better known as “the Jane Goodall of the art world.” She is the author of Tits Up.
Sarah Thornton is a sociologist who writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, she is the author of three previous books. Her second, Seven Days in the Art World was an international bestseller, published in eighteen languages, and named on...
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